[ewg] OFED4.8 build error

[Jeff Becker]

On 08/21/2017 07:58 AM, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> On 08/18/2017 12:14 AM, Jeff Becker wrote:
>> Hi. I was syncing up my git trees with the latest on the OFED server, 
>> and got an unexpected build error. Thus I tried freshly cloning trees 
>> to try the build again (without NFS/RDMA). I get the same error (see 
>> below). This is on RHEL7.3. Am I missing a step or did something 
>> change? Thanks for your help.
>>
>> -jeff
>> ...
>> Type 'make' to build kernel modules.
>>  1085$ make
>> Building kernel modules
>> Kernel version: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
>
> Hi Jeff,
> This kernel belongs to RHEL7.4 which is not supported by OFED-4.8-1.

Yes, of course. I forgot that my desktop was upgraded to RHEL7.4 in the 
patching cycle the night before I did this build. Fortunately, I still 
have a RHEL7.3 test server. I'll redo the build there. Thanks., and 
sorry for the noise.

-jeff

> Support for RHEL7.4 and SLES12 SP3 is planned for OFED-4.8-2.
> So, please use the original kernel coming with RHEL7.3.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>